Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from China and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Donny Hathaway to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Chrome. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wings,
Bill Wells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Terry,
Sam Rivers,
Absolute Body Control,
Visage,
Grey Daturas,
Excepter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rekid,
Sex Pistols,
Khruangbin,
X-102,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
LL Cool J,
Arab on Radar,
Agent Orange,
The Electric Prunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Monolake,
Soft Cell,
Chris & Cosey,
Avey Tare,
Lower 48,
Man Eating Sloth,
Alton Ellis,
The Motions,
Basic Channel,
Nico,
The Raincoats,
Dawn Penn,
Sun Ra,
Dennis Brown,
The Grass Roots,
John Lydon,
Ossler,
Wire,
Quantec,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bauhaus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nick Fraelich,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yusef Lateef,
Amon Düül II,
Pere Ubu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Porter Ricks,
Silicon Teens,
X-Ray Spex,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.